New York industrial/noise/power electronics entity, THEOLOGIAN, has penned several new live actions for the coming months, beginning with a performance at Brooklyn’s Saint Vitus Bar this Thursday, January 29th supporting British sound experimentalists and Crucial Blast labelmates, Ramleh.  

Cancer Bats‘ “True Zero” video is online now! The new video from the Canadian act is from their upcoming album, “Searching for Zero,” which is set for release in the US via Metal Blade Records on March 10th.  

Hard rock juggernaut Slipknot has announced details of a massive summer headline tour deemed the “Summer’s Last Stand” tour. The coast-to-coast trek will see the GRAMMY® Award-winning group joined by a stellar line-up of special guests including Lamb Of God, Bullet For My Valentine and Motionless In White. The North American tour is set to kickoff July 24th at West Palm Beach, Florida’s Cruzan Amphitheater and continue through early September where it will eventually wrap-up at Dallas, Texas’ Gexa Energy Pavilion on September 5th (see attached itinerary).  Pre-sales will be available Tuesday, January 27th via www.slipknot1.com with general on-sales beginning Friday, January 30th. For full dates and ticket... 

Faith No More confirm their first North American shows since 2010 with a spring outing kicking off April 15 in Vancouver.  

Tierra Y Libertad, the anxiously awaited third LP from Pomona, California’s XIBALBA, is out this week on Southern Lord Recordings, officially unleashed in Europe today and striking the US tomorrow.  

San Antonio blackened death horde, HOD, is pleased to officially induct bassist, ZVS Gastelum, into their infernal ranks. Gastelum comes by way of Texas black metal legion, Plutonian Shore, as well as Gnostic, and replaced longtime HOD comrade, Robert “Trans AM” Coleman.  

Colombian Death/Black Metallers NEPENTE will release I Will Get Your Soul March 31 on Cimmerian Shade Recordings. And this time the temperature surpasses face-melting levels!  

Panzer dawn … MARDUK have launched the video for the title track of their new album “Frontschwein.” Feuer frei!     “Frontschwein” – the 13th studio album from MARDUK and the band’s first solely war-themed album since 1999’s legendary release “Panzer Division Marduk” – was released in Europe this week and set for release in North America on February 10, 2015. The album is available as CD Jewelcase, LP (gatefold sleeve, 180 g vinyl, booklet) and limited CD Mediabook (with alternate layouts and one bonus track). “Frontschwein” tracklist: Frontschwein The Blond Beast Afrika Wartheland Rope Of Regret Between The Wolf-Packs Nebelwerfer Falaise:... 

World Metal. Kosmopolis Sud is the forthcoming long player from Norway’s prized Avant Norse folk duo, SOLEFALD.  

Unique Leader Records is pleased to unleash the reissue of Scryers Of The Ibis, the debut full-length from Florida-based theatrical blackened tech metallers and recent label signees, OVID’S WITHERING, this March.  

When bands decide to combine genres, sometimes the results are quite mixed. It goes multiple directions, not always working to the best of any genre, and that makes my heart sad. Ghoulgotha looks to combine some old fashioned death metal and doom on their new release, The Deathmass Cloak, and the results are better than expected!  

Spinefarm is thrilled to announce the signing of Pittsburgh’s incendiary punk rock iconoclasts Anti-Flag, who have served as a constant voice of and agent for change by advocating peace and human rights through their tireless work with and support of organizations like Amnesty International, ACLU, Greenpeace, Planned Parenthood, Rainforest Action Network, PETA and more. Spinefarm welcomes the band to its worldwide roster.